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What is the difference between encoding and escaping?
And what’s the difference between escaping and encoding ? Encoding is transforming data from one format into another format. Escaping is a subset of encoding, where not all characters need to be encoded. Only some characters are encoded (by using an escape character).
Why UTF-16 is bad?
The main hazard of UTF-16 is that it leads to people believing they are handling unicode correctly, when often they don’t properly decode surrogate pairs, etc. Between UTF-8 and UTF-32, the only use for UTF-16 is in legacy systems.
What’s the difference between inputenc and TeX encoding?
Accordingly the encodings of the input and the encoding of the output are two quite different things. inputenc tells TeX the encoding of your .tex file. It can be latin1, or utf8, or koi8r, or whatever. This is the encoding you set in the editor you use to write the text.
What’s the difference between coding, encoding and decoding?
As nouns the difference between encoding and coding is that encoding is (computing) the way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, eg in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text while coding is the process of encoding or decoding. As verbs the difference between encoding and coding
Why do we use Unicode for character encoding?
This Unicode encoding is a good choice because you can use a single character encoding to handle any character you are likely to need. This greatly simplifies things. Using Unicode throughout your system also removes the need to track and convert between various character encodings.
How does inputenc tell Tex what font to use?
inputenc tells TeX the encoding of your.tex file. It can be latin1, or utf8, or koi8r, or whatever. This is the encoding you set in the editor you use to write the text. fontenc tells TeX which encoding you want in the output file.